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By Amina Ismail and Charlotte Bruneau
BAGHDAD, Aug 24 (Reuters) – The number of other people facing an acute lack of food confidence internationally has more than doubled to 345 million since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, fighting and climate change, the World Food Programme (WFP) said. on Wednesday.
Before the coronavirus crisis, another 135 million people were suffering from acute hunger worldwide, Corinne Fleischer, WFP’s regional director, told Reuters. The numbers have risen since then and are expected to rise due to climate change and conflict.
The effect of demanding environmental conditions is another destabilizing thing that can lead to food shortages and lead to conflicts and mass migrations.
“The world just can’t do that,” Fleischer said. We are now seeing 10 times more displacements around the world because the weather replaces and collides and, of course, they are linked. So, we are actually concerned about the cumulative effect of COVID, the climate replace and the war in Ukraine,” he said.
In the Middle East and North Africa, the effect of the Ukraine crisis has had major repercussions, Fleischer said, pointing to the region’s dependence on imports and its proximity to the Black Sea.
“Yemen imports 90% of its food needs. And they took about 30% of the Black Sea,” Fleischer said.
WFP supports thirteen million of the 16 million other people in need of food assistance, but its assistance covers only part of a person’s wishes due to lack of funds.
Costs have increased by an average of 45% since COVID and Western donors faced demanding economic situations with the war in Ukraine.
For oil-exporting countries like Iraq, which have benefited from skyrocketing oil following the outbreak of war in Ukraine, food security is at risk.
Iraq wants about 5. 2 million tons of wheat but produces only 2. 3 million tons, he said. The rest had to be imported, how more expensive.
Despite state support, severe droughts and recurrent water crises are endangering the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Iraq, he said.
(Reporting via Amina Ismail and Charlotte Bruneau, editing via Angus MacSwan)